Gabriel Fajardo
@gabefajardo.bsky.social
Computational social neuroscientist interested in person perception, emotion, and Neuro-AI | Graduate Student in the SCRAP Lab at Dartmouth
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Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!!
This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Happy to introduce our 25 2025 Alumni Scholarship Recipients!!
This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
This year we have launched our 2025 Alumni Scholarship Fund to support 1st year grad students, graduates of our GSMI program, to cover educational expenses in their 1st year of graduate school.
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Some new work from the lab: @yuzhu194.bsky.social and Aidas Aglinskas introduce a deep-learning based fMRI denoising method that outperforms CompCor by over 200%.
Excited to share our new Nature Methods paper on DeepCor, a contrastive autoencoder for denoising fMRI. DeepCor separates neural signal from noise at the voxel level, works for single participants, and outperforms CompCor by up to 215% on real data. 1/7
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
DeepCor: denoising fMRI data with contrastive autoencoders - Nature Methods
DeepCor is a deep-learning-based denoising approach for task-based and resting-state fMRI data that can be used even for single participants.
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Some new work from the lab: @yuzhu194.bsky.social and Aidas Aglinskas introduce a deep-learning based fMRI denoising method that outperforms CompCor by over 200%.
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We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
I’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience!
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience!
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.
Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Colorado Social Vision & Mind Lab
The Social Vision & Mind Lab (Director: Youngki Hong, Ph.D.) at the University of Colorado Boulder explores how people perceive and make sense of the physica...
www.svmlab.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.
Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
Application info: www.colorado.edu/psych-neuro/...
Lab info: www.svmlab.org
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Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!
We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.
Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.
Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
Postdoctoral Associate
jobs.colorado.edu
August 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!
We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.
Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.
Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.
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Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.
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Excited to share the preprint for my 1st 1st-author manuscript! @markthornton.bsky.social and I show that people hold robust, structured beliefs about how individual mental states unfold in intensity over time. We find that these beliefs are reflected in other domains of mental state understanding.
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Excited to share the preprint for my 1st 1st-author manuscript! @markthornton.bsky.social and I show that people hold robust, structured beliefs about how individual mental states unfold in intensity over time. We find that these beliefs are reflected in other domains of mental state understanding.
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Today, SCRAP Lab returned (right) to the Path of Life Garden in Windsor, VT - the site of our first in-person get-together as a lab 5 years ago (left) - to welcome our newest member, graduate student @gabefajardo.bsky.social!
September 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Today, SCRAP Lab returned (right) to the Path of Life Garden in Windsor, VT - the site of our first in-person get-together as a lab 5 years ago (left) - to welcome our newest member, graduate student @gabefajardo.bsky.social!
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The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
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In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions.
Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift.
shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)
Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift.
shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)
A high-dimensional model of social impressions
People form social impressions from visual cues such as faces, which are argued by
various models to arise from some limited set of fixed dimensions (e.g., trustworthiness
and dominance). We argue tha...
www.cell.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In a TiCS paper, @chujunlin.bsky.social & I propose a high-dimensional model of social impressions.
Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift.
shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)
Existing models focus on 2–4 latent dimensions (e.g. trustworthy/warm), but they often fall apart across different contexts, cultures, & perceivers. We need a paradigm shift.
shorturl.at/7GD1n (1/8)
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Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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🥳Excited to share that I am joining Columbia July 2025
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏
We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!
App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl
More👉shorturl.at/q18GM
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏
We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!
App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl
More👉shorturl.at/q18GM
May 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🥳Excited to share that I am joining Columbia July 2025
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏
We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!
App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl
More👉shorturl.at/q18GM
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏
We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!
App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl
More👉shorturl.at/q18GM
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Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
May 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
Now accepting applications! 🚨 As the current lab manager, I can confidently say this is an incredible opportunity to gain lots of hands-on research experience and prepare for grad school. You'll be part of a vibrant community (+ city) and work alongside many brilliant scientists - don't miss out!
Job alert 🚨
We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing.
Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025
We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing.
Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Now accepting applications! 🚨 As the current lab manager, I can confidently say this is an incredible opportunity to gain lots of hands-on research experience and prepare for grad school. You'll be part of a vibrant community (+ city) and work alongside many brilliant scientists - don't miss out!
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Applying to STEM grad programs? 🎓
Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2025! 🤩
The GSMI program supports applicants through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, professional development, and community building!
Applications accepted on a ROLLING basis until 5/31!
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Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2025! 🤩
The GSMI program supports applicants through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, professional development, and community building!
Applications accepted on a ROLLING basis until 5/31!
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April 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Applying to STEM grad programs? 🎓
Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2025! 🤩
The GSMI program supports applicants through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, professional development, and community building!
Applications accepted on a ROLLING basis until 5/31!
cientificolatino.com/gsmi
MORE INFO in 🧵 1/
Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2025! 🤩
The GSMI program supports applicants through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, professional development, and community building!
Applications accepted on a ROLLING basis until 5/31!
cientificolatino.com/gsmi
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I'm THRILLED to announce that this fall, I will be joining the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth as a PhD student!!! I'll will be working with the amazing @markthornton.bsky.social and the SCRAP Lab! 🌲🧠
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm THRILLED to announce that this fall, I will be joining the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth as a PhD student!!! I'll will be working with the amazing @markthornton.bsky.social and the SCRAP Lab! 🌲🧠
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Gabriel Fajardo & @freemanjb.bsky.social have created a new connectionist model of trait formation (impression from faces). High dimension, dynamic models may buy us better model outcomes and situational variability #spsp2025 #comppsych
February 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Gabriel Fajardo & @freemanjb.bsky.social have created a new connectionist model of trait formation (impression from faces). High dimension, dynamic models may buy us better model outcomes and situational variability #spsp2025 #comppsych